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United Airlines Announces $1 Million Grant To Help California Foster Youth Succeed

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Vendredi, juillet 13, 2018
Aviation, United Airlines, United Continental Holdings, US Airways, Airline, TED, Antonov An-148

LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Today, United Airlines announced a $1 million grant to First Place for Youth in support of their My First Place program.

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  • LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Today, United Airlines announced a $1 million grant to First Place for Youth in support of their My First Place program.
  • First Place will strengthen career-focused programming and provide the tools to help secure meaningful employment and increase lifetime earning potential for Angeleno foster youth.
  • "As California's global airline, United cares deeply about investing in the state's future," said United's President of California Janet Lamkin.
  • In 2017, United and United Express operated more than 1.6 million flights carrying more than 148 million customers.

Rockbridge Announces 2018 New Speaker Platform For RTRX

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Mardi, juillet 3, 2018
Culture, Pelotonia, Public speaking, United States, Rockbridge, Ohio, TED

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Rockbridge announced its roster of speakers for the seventh-annual RTRX (Rock the Road Experience) to be held August 2-4, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio, benefitting Pelotonia.

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  • COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Rockbridge announced its roster of speakers for the seventh-annual RTRX (Rock the Road Experience) to be held August 2-4, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio, benefitting Pelotonia.
  • RTRX features a fast-paced, high-energy format of speaker presentations called X-Talks.
  • Based on the Ted-Talk format, the RTRX platform spotlights seven speakers who will share thoughts and insights on a variety of topics focused on leadership and innovation.
  • For its seventh year, RTRX has again set the bar high, announcing a goal of raising $1.1 million for Pelotonia.

LeanData Announces 3rd Annual Ops-Stars Conference

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Lundi, juin 18, 2018
Culture, Business, Economy, Email marketing software, Marketo, Glassdoor, Adobe Systems, TED

With the theme of "Follow the Money" Ops-Stars attendees can discover the technology, trends, and people who are shaping the future of Revenue Operations.

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  • With the theme of "Follow the Money" Ops-Stars attendees can discover the technology, trends, and people who are shaping the future of Revenue Operations.
  • "Over the years, Ops-Stars has become the de-facto conference for Operations leaders.
  • Attendees can expect an elevated conference, featuring influential thought leaders and Operations leaders from the biggest brands in the B2B space," said Karen Steele, chief marketing officer, LeanData.
  • LeanData is helping over 350 customers, including Marketo, Adobe, and Glassdoor, reduce complexity and frustration while accelerating revenue.

LMU Conference to Focus on How Sports can Help Humanity

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Mercredi, juin 13, 2018
Culture, Public speaking, TED, Structure, Human behavior

The event is co-sponsored by the West Coast Conference and LA84 Foundation.

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  • The event is co-sponsored by the West Coast Conference and LA84 Foundation.
  • The annual conference grew out of an initiative launched by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture, which held the first global conference in 2016.
  • Simril was a delegate to the initial Sport at the Service of Humanity conference held by the Vatican in 2016, co-curated the current conference, and will be delivering remarks titled,Play Equity & Social Justice.
  • The sold-out, invitation-only conference will be held at the LMU campus, in the newly opened, award-winning Life Sciences Building.

2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Conference 2018 Officially Opens Call for Papers and Registration

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Jeudi, juin 7, 2018
Software, Cross-platform software, Culture, PostgreSQL, TED, Free software

NEW YORK, June 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- 2ndQuadrant announced today that the 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Conference 2018 (2Q PGConf, for short) will be hosted on December 4th & 5th in Chicago, IL.

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  • NEW YORK, June 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- 2ndQuadrant announced today that the 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Conference 2018 (2Q PGConf, for short) will be hosted on December 4th & 5th in Chicago, IL.
  • Registration and call for papers have officially been opened for the event.
  • 2Q PGConf is a conference dedicated to exchanging knowledge about PostgreSQL, aimed at helping attendees to understand how it can work for enterprise organizations of any size.
  • Registration is open for the event and tickets for general admission and training courses can be purchased directly on the conference website: www.2qpgconf.com/#register
    The Call for Papers for the conference has officially been opened.

United Airlines Names John Slater Senior Vice President of Inflight Services

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Lundi, juin 4, 2018
Aviation, United Airlines, OpenTravel Alliance, Star Alliance, American Airlines Group, US Airways, United Continental Holdings, TED, Flight attendant

CHICAGO, June 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --United Airlines today announced John Slater has been named senior vice president of inflight services, overseeing United's 24,000 flight attendants.

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  • CHICAGO, June 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --United Airlines today announced John Slater has been named senior vice president of inflight services, overseeing United's 24,000 flight attendants.
  • John previously served as vice president of United's inflight team and brings with him decades of experience and a deep commitment to providing excellent customer service on board United's flights.
  • John, who at the beginning of his career served as a flight attendant for People Express Airlines, previously served as vice president of United's O'Hare hub.
  • He also spent several years with the United sales group, last serving as vice president of the Americas region.

United Airlines Names John Slater Senior Vice President of Inflight Services

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Lundi, juin 4, 2018
Aviation, United Airlines, OpenTravel Alliance, Star Alliance, American Airlines Group, US Airways, United Continental Holdings, TED, Flight attendant

CHICAGO, June 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --United Airlines today announced John Slater has been named senior vice president of inflight services, overseeing United's 24,000 flight attendants.

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  • CHICAGO, June 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --United Airlines today announced John Slater has been named senior vice president of inflight services, overseeing United's 24,000 flight attendants.
  • John previously served as vice president of United's inflight team and brings with him decades of experience and a deep commitment to providing excellent customer service on board United's flights.
  • John, who at the beginning of his career served as a flight attendant for People Express Airlines, previously served as vice president of United's O'Hare hub.
  • He also spent several years with the United sales group, last serving as vice president of the Americas region.

Synopsys' Latest ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit Release Speeds Application Software Development for Embedded Vision Systems

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Jeudi, mai 31, 2018
Computer architecture, Computing, Application programming interfaces, Cross-platform software, Computer programming, Arc, System on a chip, Synopsys, OpenCL, OpenVX, TED, Compiler

New ARC MetaWare EV release automatically maps neural network graphs to EV6x with new options that reduce computational, memory, and bandwidth requirements

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  • New ARC MetaWare EV release automatically maps neural network graphs to EV6x with new options that reduce computational, memory, and bandwidth requirements
    Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), today announced a new release of its DesignWare ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit , an integrated programming environment that accelerates application software development for the DesignWare ARC EV6x family of embedded vision processors.
  • The ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit offers a programming environment for the EV6x vision processor IP based on the OpenVX open standard API, with a C/C++ compiler and OpenCL C vectorizing compiler.
  • "The latest enhancements to the ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit provides embedded vision developers with a complete and integrated toolset that addresses key requirements of embedded vision applications, including the main CNN frameworks, enabling them to get their DesignWare ARC EV6x Processor-based products to market faster."
  • The 2018.06 release of the ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit for DesignWare ARC EV6x Vision Processors for both Windows and Linux workstations is scheduled to be available in June 2018.

Announcing TEDxBocaRaton - Innovation: Reinventing Yourself

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Vendredi, mai 18, 2018
Culture, Health, Restorative dentistry, Prosthodontics, TED, Loma Linda University

Erik Mintz, TEDxBocaRaton Organizer is taking his knowledge, network, and passion to spearhead a high-caliber series of speakers sure to make TEDxBocaRaton an acclaimed experience.

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  • Erik Mintz, TEDxBocaRaton Organizer is taking his knowledge, network, and passion to spearhead a high-caliber series of speakers sure to make TEDxBocaRaton an acclaimed experience.
  • Raichelle Aniceto, MIT Space Telecommunications, Ph.D Research on the development of optical communications systems is sponsored by FacebookConnectivity Lab.
  • Sreenivas Koka, interim Chair of Restorative Dentistry at UCLA and a Clinical Professor in Advanced Prosthodontics at Loma Linda University.
  • Many of these talks are given at TED's annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com.

Why scientists must be free to speak - Science Minister Kirsty Duncan emphasizes importance of scientific freedom at TED Talks

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Mercredi, mai 16, 2018
Culture, Public speaking, TED, Structure, Human behavior

The Minister's experiences have since guided her actions in her portfolio, including ensuring federal scientists can again speak freely about their research.

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  • The Minister's experiences have since guided her actions in her portfolio, including ensuring federal scientists can again speak freely about their research.
  • "It is critical that our scientists are not muzzledfree to undertake their work, free to collaborate with other scientists, and free to speak to the media and the public.
  • We want to send a message: you do not mess with something so precious as freedom in science."
  • TED is a non-profit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).